Continuity mistake: After Elizabeth is made Captain by an injured Sao Feng, her hairstyle significantly differs in the following shots, particularly when she is with Norrington on deck.
Continuity mistake: When Sao Feng punches Jack, the lace on Jack wrist is barely frayed and pretty clean; however in previous shots it is very frayed and filthy.
Continuity mistake: When Captain Teague looks up the Code in the book by Morgan and Bartholomew, in the close-ups the fingers of his right hand runs across the line "It shall be the duty of the Pirate King", but next wideshot it's his left hand doing the page scanning, with his right hand at his side.
Continuity mistake: When the Black Pearl crew are captured by Sao Feng, there is a shot of Will and Elizabeth with Will being held back by a metal pointed object round his neck. In the next shot with Will in the background, the metal object is gone.
Continuity mistake: At the mass pirate hanging, the left sock (viewer's right) of the man who stands beside the boy is up to his knee. When they sing, "Heave ho," that sock is down, but when they sing, "Never shall we die," it's higher up again.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, when Elizabeth runs into Sao Feng's 'henchmen', the guy talking says, "Particularly a woman", and in these shots watch the guy behind, his hat is down. Yet when Elizabeth and the three henchmen turn to look at Barbossa, the guy's hat is now cocked upwards, so the camera can see a lot more of his face.
Continuity mistake: When Jack is in Davey Jones' locker, and he is messing around with the rock, there are a few close up shots of his face and there is a bump, probably a pimple, on the left hand side of his face, by his lower lip, and a few shots later it is gone. It disappears without enough time passing for it to have gone away of its own accord.
Continuity mistake: During the scene where the crabs in Davy Jones' Locker are helping to move Jack's ship, the camera does a close-up of Jack's face, in which he has a very amusing expression. In the next shot, the camera has pulled back from him, and his face and angle are entirely different.
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth is making her speech to the pirates near the end of the movie her hair moves from over her shoulders in front shots to behind her shoulders in shots from behind.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie just after the East India Trading Company soldiers have ambushed Sao Feng, Barbossa and the others, Jack the monkey lays a rocket on the side of the bridge, if you watch closely, the rocket moves/rolls to its left, yet just before it flies through the air it's straight again in this shot.
Continuity mistake: When the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl destroy the Endeavor, they work their way from the front to the rear of the ship. Yet the wave of destruction is actually shown to be moving forwards along the ship following Lord Cutler Beckett down the steps from the wheel.
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth is holding a knife to the Chinese man's throat, the other man whistles to alert them of soldiers on the bridge. Elizabeth then grabs hold of her large hat, as she is turning and moving back against the wall, yet in the following shot her hand is down.
Continuity mistake: When Captain Vallenueva says, "I still agree with Sao Feng," and slams the pistol down, things on the table change position in following shots.
Continuity mistake: After Jack and crew are brought back to life, Elizabeth looks out to sea and says "it's a sunrise". Then there is a shot of Barbossa looking at the sunrise. In the next shot he quickly turns around and points his pistol at Jack. The lighting in these two shots changes significantly, where the first is warm, red, sunrise-type light, and the next shot looks as though it was filmed in the middle of the day.
Continuity mistake: Close to the beginning of the film when Barbossa is explaining to Will about the green flash, look closely at the chinese man's hat, it has two icicles on the front of it, and in one particular shot just after Pintel interrupts Gibbs you can see that one of the icicles has been broken or dropped off, and then in the following shot it has reappeared again.
Continuity mistake: When the pirates arrive at the island and Barbossa cries "It's Jack!", Elizabeth's face swaps from spotless to covered in hairs.
Continuity mistake: During the maelstrom battle when Will stabs Davy Jones, his shirt is noticeably soaking wet. But after he is knocked to the side of the ship, his shirt is nearly completely dry.
Continuity mistake: When the ship is sliding through the white desert there's a close-up of Jack in awe putting a funny face. He's got a bang of hair on his left cheek. A shot later from a different angle the hair disappears.
Continuity mistake: In the scene on the Dutchman where Bootstrap runs through the Admiral, he stabs him from front to back, but when it shows the Admiral lying on the deck he is run through from back to front. (01:27:15)
Continuity mistake: When Jack uses the cannon to propel himself back to the Pearl and everybody runs up the stairs, Will is holding a pistol and his hands are free, however in the next shot he's still chained.
Answer: From the point of view of the Dutchman, Bootstrap is dead enough to serve on the ship. The idea is that Jones rescues people who would otherwise simply have drowned and makes them serve on his ship in lieu of death; as such, they can be considered technically deceased. Elizabeth has been into the Locker, yes, but with the demise of Jones, the Locker may not even exist any more. Will's task is to escort the dead into the afterlife, not the Locker - while Elizabeth survived the Locker, the afterlife may be something entirely different. The rules regarding the Dutchman and the duties of her crew are never spelled out, but it seems that, no, Elizabeth cannot live on her.
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